Bit sliced digital cross connect switching system controlled by port units
CA 2243282 C · Owner: Bortolini, James R. · Inventors: Bortolini, Edward J.; Bortolini, James R.
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A switching network having a plurality of independent switching groups with each switching group capable of switching one bit of each group of data from external data links through a telecommunication switching system and port units interfacing the data links directly control which of the switching groups will be active. This allows extra switching groups to be utilized as replacement switching groups should a switching group actively switching a bit of the incoming data be disabled. This increases the overall reliability of the telecommunication switching system since a failure of a port unit will only effect the external data link that is connected to that unit. In addition, this …
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- Filed July 16, 1998 and granted July 8, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 16, 2018.
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